California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ripped for stoking anti-immigration flames after he decried federal agents as President Trump’s “private domestic army” — just hours before a sniper shot dead multiple people at a Texas ICE field office.
The Democrat spewed the rhetoric during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night as he blasted the Trump admin’s “authoritarian tendencies” and said the “ICE issue is alarming beyond words.”
“People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government,” he said during a lengthy rant.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ripped for stoking anti-ICE flames after he decried federal agents as President Trump’s “private domestic army.” REUTERS
Newsom made the statement just hours before a sniper fatally shot multiple people at a Texas ICE field office. APNewsom, who just last week signed a bill banning ICE agents from masking up to conceal their identities during raids, suggested the federal agency was having a “chilling impact” on other law enforcement agencies across the country.
“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he claimed.
Here's what we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooting
- A gunman identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE van at a detention center in Dallas, Texas, in the early hours of Sept. 24.
- Jahn began shooting while detainees were being transferred and the portcullis to the facility was open, reports claim.
- One person died and two were wounded, according to reports. Jahn was found dead on a nearby rooftop from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- There was writing on the bullets, with one reading “ANTI-ICE,” according to the FBI.
- The shooting is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence,” the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Joe Rothrock, said in a press conference.
“That’s happening in the United States of America: Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” Newsom said. “This can’t be normalized. None of this can be normalized.”
Critics quickly blasted the Dem leader’s “absurd” and “inflammatory rhetoric.”
Others argued his remarks were proof that immigration agents were being demonized – especially in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting at the Dallas ICE facility that left two detainees dead and another critically injured.
Ammunition with “ANTI-ICE” engraved on them were found at the scene of a shooting at a Dallas ICE Facility. X/@FBIDirectorKash“Three days ago, Gavin Newsom yelled, “To ICE: unmask! What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?!” Three people shot by a sniper at a Dallas ICE facility this morning have his answer,” one person raged on X.
Another chimed in, “Newsom LAST NIGHT on ICE: ‘These are authoritarian actions.’ JUST NOW: An ICE facility in Texas was shot up by a sniper.”
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- Shooter Joshua Jahn’s brother claims sniper ‘didn’t have strong feelings about ICE’: report
“Gavin Newsom is getting people killed. He has to stop this insane rhetoric because people will listen to him and try to kill Trump officials, ICE and probably Republicans in Congress,” one person claimed, adding “WTF is wrong with this idiot? Does he think this is what Trump does and why he is popular?”
“When will we admit reckless rhetoric on TV fuels violence?” another said bluntly.
